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Exclusive: Avalanche’s offer to Panarin would have tied McDavid for highest-paid player in NHL

In the past few days, I’ve had a few stories about the Artemi Panarin situation, about how serious the Avalanche were in pursuing him and how close it came to happening. Well, after talks with a handful of other NHL sources, I have more details on just how close it really came, and just how serious the Avs were in pursuing him: